Definitions for prude

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IPA: /prud/

Prude is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in prude (depru).

Definitions for prude

noun

  1. a person who is excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.

Origin of prude

1695-1705; French prude a prude (noun), prudish (adj.), short for prudefemme, Old French prodefeme worthy or respectable woman. See proud, feme<

Examples for prude

So much that people thought her cold, some even pronouncing her a prude.

So far no Republican congressman has been foolish enough to cast himself as the Ken Starr figure, prude, proud and prurient.

We are left with stalwart genres (action, rom com) and classic roles (prude, seductress, jock, backstory-less best friend).

And apparently the girl was far from being a prude or a snob.

Oh, I dare say they'd make a good team,—one's a prude and the other a prig.

Angioletto could not decide whether to think him rogue or prude.

Casual sex had never interested me before; I had always been a bit of a prude.

“Bay isn't a prude, but she isn't going to have sex with anyone just to get it over with,” Weiss said.

"For Heaven's sake, don't be a prude, Moya," Joyce snapped irritably.

Mapplethorpe is infamous for his raw depictions of sexuality, but Rodin was no prude.

Word Value for prude
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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